jacorreia

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by jacorreia 10y ago
Followed by a paragraph describing that it's just a hypothesis and they'll have to reconcile with studies that show that you burn more energy with exercise. I didn't say that doing 400 calories of exercise in a day was easy,
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by jacorreia 10y ago
It's literally just calories in vs. calories out. If 400 calories/day meets your weight loss goals, all you have to do is make sure that the calories you expend + the calories you no longer intake = 400. The ratio of those two fac
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by jacorreia 11y ago
The only party that benefits from tips is the employer (let's not go into the employee distinction right now though). It just shifts the responsibility to the customer to determine whether or not the employee should be paid for their w
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by jacorreia 11y ago
Contrary to what it might look like, rowing is almost entirely dependent on your legs, your arms/back merely keep the momentum going at the back of the stroke. Also, the muscles in your back are nowhere near as strong/large as the
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by jacorreia 11y ago
I would be interested to see what others have to say about the different co-op program running at the University of Toronto: instead of the multiple 4/8-month co-op terms we have a single 16-month co-op term between 3rd and 4th year. Y
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Ask HN: Should I worry about having a job offer retracted?
5 points by jacorreia 12y ago|6 comments
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by jacorreia 12y ago
Oh of course, there's little doubt he committed treason, but the fact that his homosexuality was used to ensure that a fair trial was impossible is what I was trying to get at. Are there any other similar cases to Turing/Wilde&#x2
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by jacorreia 12y ago
I'm sure may of you are aware of Alan Turing and Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency (and if you're not you most definitely should!), but you should all also learn about the similar prosecution against Roger Casemen
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by jacorreia 12y ago
This study shows a bit of what the general public really needs to understand about personal health: it's very hard to train multiple aspects of your fitness with only one type of activity. Doing cardio makes you better at cardio. Stren
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by jacorreia 12y ago
Your codename seems to be a collection of random words, the number of which you get to specify.
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by jacorreia 12y ago
Yeah, I've heard great things about the Wordpress community! Some of the others that I've found have a great support base are Open Streetmap, Open Science, and Ubuntu.
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Ask HN: What are some of the best open-source projects for beginners?
8 points by jacorreia 12y ago|6 comments
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by jacorreia 12y ago
Ahhhhh now I want to go back and read Rendezvous with Rama. But I'm scared to reread it, I don't want to tarnish my memory of it.
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Ask HN: What technologies should I be learning with my 20% time?
2 points by jacorreia 12y ago|1 comments